Showing posts with label China: Beijing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China: Beijing. Show all posts

Herzog & de Meuron. Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest)


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  • All thousands of tons of steel were made in China, making the stadium the largest steel structure in the world.
  • for the design, the team studied chinese ceramics

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Why does a Chinese bowl or a Chinese window have this kind of pattern? Maybe the Chinese people like things to appear in this irregular way, but underneath there are very clear rules. The Bird's Nest developed in this way.
 - Li Xinggang, head architect of CADG

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Although China’s burgeoning wealth owes much to its export industries, for the Olympics the country has been content to play the reverse role, buying the most futuristic architecture that the rest of the world has to offer, rather than showcasing native talent.

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Steven Holl. Lynked Hybrid

map: Beijing, China











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Named by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) as the “Best Tall Building Overall” for 2009


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“It is only in the intensification of our cities and the inclusion of mixed urban-public facilities in the sky that the true vibrant, dense cities of the future can be realized. The Linked Hybrid building, perhaps more than any other built project, really does point the way to that future.”

Anthony Wood. CTBUH Executive Director



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The idea of the street high above the city is intended to counteract the sense of isolation that high-rise living usually brings, and to create an incentive for residents to walk around the complex.
Paul Goldberger for The Newyorker. read the article



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OMA by Rem Koolhaas, & Ole Sheeren. CCTV Tower

map: Guanghua Lu, BeijingChaoyang, China An adjacent building in the complex caught on fire by fireworks on Feb 9th 2009, before the building's scheduled completion in May 2009. It was to have the Beijing Mandarin Oriental Hotel
The fire extinguished: should the building be demolished or rebuilt? Read more




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- On the bridge where the two leaning legs of the office meet there is a glass floor 525 feet above ground.

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"The project is one of the most visionary since modernism and beyond" Tina di Carlo, assistant curator of architecture and design at the Museum for Modern Art (MoMA)

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"it is a dazzling reinvention of the skyscraper, using size not to dominate but to embrace the viewer." Paul Goldberger for The New Yorker. June 30, 2008. Read the article


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